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Hi, everybody. Ben Parker from The Bulwark here with my colleague, Andrew Egger. You know, our boss sometimes says that the sweetest thing in life is to watch bad things happen to bad people. So we're just going to take a few minutes and talk about Elon Musk's no good, horrible, terrible,
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You don't got all the adjectives right. They just run in the right order. Yeah, it's been 24 hours for the big guy, the vice big guy, Elon Musk, poured an insane amount of money and a lot of time and a lot of ketamine-fueled attention into last night's state Supreme Court race in Wisconsin,

Andrew Egger and Ben Parker talk Elon’s terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day after an embarrassing loss for Republicans in Wisconsin, his rumored impending exit from the the White House, and clear messages from Tesla stocks.

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ruserious's avatar

Good episode.

More Ben on The Bulwark. Truthfully I would like you to host a Bulwark book club. Loved the one with your mum. I need recommendations so I can take my mind off of all of the insanity.

Andrew - enjoying your work.

Musk is not going away.

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Hortense's avatar

I thought I saw a headline pass by that Musk is being asked to step down from the Tesla board.

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René Williamson's avatar

Keep calling it, Twitter or the ex Twitter.

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Alyssa Denman's avatar

I like calling it TwiX. If everyone started calling it TwiX it would be a god-tier troll to force Elon Musk into a copyright battle with Mars.

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Kammie's avatar

You guys nead to realize that the tapping sounds of your hands on the table make this unlistenable on podcast.

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Kentuckistan's avatar

I can take it or leave it with James Carville but he predicted a spectacular collapse within 30 - 90 days about a month ago. National Security, Immigration, Tariffs, Doge. across all the verticals its a collection of arrogant incompetent 3rd string Fox flunkies

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jpg's avatar

I guess Elon didn’t learn from the BudLight marketing fiasco.

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SDWade's avatar

People of conscience shouldn't engage in schadenfreude and yet. . . .

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Kentuckistan's avatar

two gooey scoops for everybody!

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Diana Shellenberger's avatar

If Trump/Musk schadenfreude is wrong, I don’t wanna be right.

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Christina Ronnberg's avatar

Let us enjoy it please! It helps to fill my liberal tears’ well so I can have more than enough to share with MAGA who apparently are addicted to 😢 or some shit

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Kirk Foster's avatar

I think Teslas number are actually considerably worse when you consider their claimed pre-orders. I put down $100 refundable deposit on a cyber truck before I saw the final design. When I finally saw the design, I cancelled my order and to date, Tesla has refused to refund the money or cancel the order. I wonder how many of their claimed pending orders are also fake.

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Jen's avatar

He needs to testify before Congress. Not sure if as a private citizen "fired" by Trump Dems would have more leverage to make that happen. We need a public accounting of everything he's done at DOGE and what he's doing with the our data. There needs to be a second reckoning for this man.

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Peg Dawson Harrington's avatar

The clusterfuck is greater than the sum of its parts!”

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Jdizzle's avatar

Good podcast. Please put your microphones on rubber mats and some room treatment. The booms are killing me

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Jdizzle's avatar

I will gladly be your sound consult just for my own benefit lol

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Donna Grey Albretsen's avatar

Trump is in the business of hiring fall guys, and Elon doesn’t care who thinks what. I suspect he imbedded code in all those government computers he used, to free up government money for his projects. The Donald thinks he has a friend, and he does, much like his bromance with Putin and Kim Jong Un.

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DanceThisMessAround's avatar

Allen Weisselberg was born to go to jail for Trump. ;-)

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Sarah Clement's avatar

One good day — at last. Wisconsin, thank you. I knew you weren’t as stupid as Elon thinks you are, Kyle Rittenhouse notwithstanding

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Hortense's avatar

Just a nit to pick - Rittenhouse lived in Illinois. He just went to Wisconsin to cause trouble.

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Sarah Clement's avatar

True, Hortense. I remembered that later.

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Hortense's avatar

Sometimes there just too much to keep track of.

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Robin Held's avatar

So happy today! There are a few cracks starting to emerge, small cracks, but cracks nonetheless!

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Norma Feldman's avatar

couldn’t happen to a more deserving person

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